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Good news today from Oslo for the embattled European Union. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded it the 2012 peace prize for contributions over more than six decades to “peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights.” Note the absence of “prosperity.”

José Manuel Barroso, president of the European commission, immediately tweeted:

It is a great honour for the whole of the #EU, all 500 million citizens, to be awarded the 2012 #Nobel Peace prize.

Twitter immediately lit up with jokes about how the roughly $1.2 million in prize money would be spent. Some speculated it would pay for the wine at the celebratory peace prize party, while another suggested Germany would grab the cash and refuse to share it with Greece.